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HEALTH&FITNESS
October14
a 3:45marathoner, so a pretty good athlete. Eighteen months
later, in November 2013, he ran the New York Marathon in
a cracking 3:02.
That’s phenomenal! But I’m still not clear on how
the physiology works.
Simply put, the intensities you train at determine the majority
of your benefit. To sustain your pace over the distance of a
marathon, you need to be burning fat, not carbohydrates.
If you do your training at too high an intensity, you teach
your body to burn carbohydrate and to accumulate lactate.
At lower training intensities, you teach it to burn fat and to
clear lactate. Our method will fix this aerobic dysfunction,
enabling you to run faster, perhaps much faster, while using
the same effort.
We start with a fuel-efficiency test, checking your
metabolism to see what proportion of carbohydrate and
fat you’re burning. Then we do a lactate test, to determine
the lactic acid concentration in your blood. From that, we
can determine your lactate threshold and your optimal
heart-rate zones, and provide you with a programme that’s
tailored to make you faster.
OCTOBER
2
Bloomberg Square Mile Relay,
sunset, 1M,
Promontory@MarinaBay
11-12
North Face 100,
100/50/25/13K
11
Tumble Rumble Run,
10am, Woodleigh
12
Chua Chu Kang B.I.G. Farm Walk and Run,
7am, Brickland Road
18
Passion North Run,
4pm, 8/4.5K, Yishun
25
Run for Your Lives,
Singapore, midnight
26
Newton Challenge,
5am, 32/18K, Big Splash
31
Monster Ultra 200,
9pm, 200K in 48 hours, MacRitchie Reservoir
NOVEMBER
1
Puma Night Run,
6pm, 10K, Sentosa
2
CSC Run by the Bay,
7am, 10/15K, The Float @ Marina Bay
Singapore Airlines Charity Run,
7am, 300m/5/10K, F1 Pit Building
9
Great Eastern Women’s Run,
5.30am, 5/10/21.1K, The Float @
Marina Bay
16
Run for Hope,
7am, 3.5/10K, Promontory@ Marina Bay
23
Swissôtel Vertical Marathon,
6.30am, 73 storeys, Swissôtel the
Stamford
DECEMBER
7
Standard Chartered Marathon,
5am, 750m/10/21/42K
14
Banana Relay,
7.45am, 4K laps, Sengkang Riverside Park
28
MR25 Ultramarathon,
5 x 10K in 12 hours